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Kaseya Looks To Take Bite Out of Cost, Complexity of Mobile Management

2015-03-10

Kaseya is looking to take a bite out of the cost and complexity of mobile device and app management, especially for small and mid-sixed firms. Kaseya Release 9’s cloud-based IT management powers easy-to-use EMM at an eye-popping price point. IDN speaks with Kaseya exes.

Kony Inc. is rolling out an aggressive 3-pronged approach to dramatically speed up the ability of enterprises to deliver “ready-to-run” mobile apps. To learn about Kony’s new Marketplace, smart code-free Modeler and a growing partner network, IDN speaks with Kony’s Burley Kawasaki.

Citrix is updating its long-standing XenMobile EMM with a new architecture to deliver better mobile user experience – for both IT and end users. XenMobile 10 offers streamlined workflows, simplified deployment, easier end-to-end management and even user self-service.

SnapLogic is taking another step to make iPaaS more high-performance and enterprise-grade. SnapLogic’s Ultra Pipelines can access and integrate data at nearly real-time speeds and deliver more data-centric integration capabilities. IDN talks with SnapLogic’s Timothy Lui.

Having a DevOps strategy doesn't just help deliver a more efficient IT. Done right, DevOps can also make big contributions to a business' bottom (and top) lines. This is one of the big takeaways from a recent DevOps study by CA Technologies.

Enterprise security professionals worried their systems and data could be vulnerable to “inside hacks,” have another good reason for concern. A survey of 1,000 employees at large global organizations found one-in-seven admit they would sell passwords to outsiders for little as $150. IDN explores the Market Pulse Survey from SailPoint.

Lavastorm has added new analyst-friendly features to its analytics platform and engine. The upgrade looks to ‘democratize’ predictive analytics projects more easily for companies that don’t have highly-skilled data scientists or hard-to-find Hadoop programmers.

Advances across the mobile ecosystem are making it faster, easier and more lucrative for app developers. A just-released survey by Evans Data Corp. looks at developer activity. The survey also found technologies for Internet of Things ‘won the year.’ IDN speaks with Evan Data’s director of research Michael Rasalan.

Apigee’s latest efforts to power digital acceleration aim to fill in gaps in the API lifecycle that can spell the difference between API success – or a flop. Apigee-127 brings together key tools, including Swagger, for a ‘design-first’ way to deliver accurate and easier-to-consume APIs. IDN speaks with Apigee’s Jeff West.

In SOLA – Mainframe SOA, Jim Crew discusses how leading financial firms are deploying safe and effective strategies for making mainframe assets available and reusable by a variety of SOA and web-based applications. Notably, Jim brings an end-user perspective, thanks to his role as a former executive at Merrill Lynch. Details of SOLA tooling and architecture are featured.

James Carter delivers a report from the front lines of mainframe modernization projects in Tools and Expertise to Modernize Mainframe Applications. In his discussion, James lays out architectures and deployment strategies for mainframe-to-web portals, one of the most effective mainframe modernization patterns for securing quick and easily-documented ROI.

In this session, Slash Maintenance Costs While Incrementally Evolving Core Systems. Scott Searle details results from a fall 2009 CIO survey, and reviews latest Rational products aimed at helping customers better leverage all their developers to save money and time on their mainframe modernization projects, and build a smart IT foundation for the future.

In Mainframe Modernization and SOA, Dan Speer describes how HostBridge Technology provided mainframe modernization solutions to improve business value and efficiencies for many popular legacy assets, including CICS, COBOL, DB2, CA Ideal and even vertical-specific assets.

Rob Morris describes how GT Software’s Ivory suite of mainframe SOA integration offerings provide customers new economically-sensitive approaches to modernizing mainframe assets – ways to make them more useful and more efficient to the business -- all with surprisingly little if any risk.

Progress Software CTO Hub Vandervoort explains how SOA-driven integration and the Sonic ESB are delivering “operational responsiveness” to bring companies un-imagined flexibility and control over infrastructure, applications and business data – and make all IT resources much more responsive to changing business needs.

Sun Microsystems’ CTO for infrastructure details how open source middleware is changing how companies of all sizes are thinking about integration. Ross Altman details ROI, deployment patterns and Case Studies for how customers are using Sun’s open source GlassFish ESB for mission-critical integration projects.

Jerry Cuomo, a founding father of WebSphere, discusses how IBM’s WebSphere ESB software and appliance portfolio is helping customers achieve top priorities, even in a tough economy. Cost optimization, improving agility, SOA governance and even B2B integrations are featured.

This session shares how IBM WebSphere ESB and events integration supports enterprise and B2B projects. Also featured are F1000 use cases, with a focus on self-funding projects that quickly deliver ROI.

IBM’s VP for Cloud Services Ric Telford describes Big Blue cloud solutions that allow customers to improve capital utilization, cut IT labor times and slash provisioning and cycle times from months to minutes – all in 90 days or less.

IBM’s CTO for WebSphere discusses key considerations for enterprise IT when providing and consuming services from today’s three major types of clouds – private, hybrid and public. A discussion of WebSphere cloud-facing options is also featured.

RightScale CEO Michael Crandell shares several results-focused cloud solutions to solve problems and reduce pain for both IT and business – in 90 days or less. Also, get a no-nonsense tour of how RightScale accelerates the launch of cloud projects.

One of IBM’s top SOA Governance experts describes how customers are using IBM SOA Governance solutions to improve their business’ their competitive advantages. Case Studies feature how to launch new products quicker, respond better to customer requests, and help IT and business processes be more flexible.

HP’s Kelly Emo connects-the-dots between SOA, SOA Governance and business results in this session. She describes in detail just how F1000 firms are capturing business value from SOA Governance investments to cut IT costs, accelerate software rollouts and meet business needs.

See how InterContinental Hotels Group uses Actional SOA Governance and Management to track and complete 1000s of transactions per second with low-latency, and keep IT and business aligned as IHG opens almost 1 hotel every day.

James Carter, a Mainframe SOA solutions architect with Seagull Software details how the LegaSuite application modernization suite helped one of the nation’s leading utilities build a powerful customer self-service portal.

Experts from IBM and SOA Software describe how Automated SOA Governance is helping customers cut SOA budgets and boost SOA’s effectiveness and business output. Learn how F1000s are benefiting from a new agile and full-featured approach for SOA Governance and Federation – that readily fits into their ‘any-to-any’ heterogeneous environments.

Automating Unified SOA Governance

The “Agile” Approach To End-to-End Governance, Policy Compliance and Control

As 2010 gets underway, a large number of Chief Information Officers say they see ways to leverage and share valuable mainframe assets will be a top priority.

Our Mainframe Modernization ‘Expert Voice’ for this edition, IBM’s Scott Searle, shares results of a revealing CIO study IBM conducted in 2009, details how the CIO findings are driving a powerful approach to mainframe modernization at Rational, which blends the best of COBOL, Java, .NET, SOA and Governance.

Jeff shares how customers are apply SOA techniques to overcome shortcomings of many traditional mainframe integration techniques. The results: Leveraging DB2, IMS and other mainframe data for near real-time projects that deliver dramatically more business value.

This session reviews several mainframe modernization scenarios, from transaction, integration,Web 2.0 portals and even mainframe in the cloud. Automated technologies, Best Practices and simple deployment profiles are featured.

A results-driven look at how IBM Rational tools and collaboration products are providing CIOs a modern “bridge” to a new generation of mainframe development, empowering mainframe, mid-tier, Java, .NET and other developers to create and update legacy assets via service creation, deliver and management.

A results-driven look at how IBM Rational tools and collaboration products are providing CIOs a modern “bridge” to a new generation of mainframe development, empowering mainframe, mid-tier, Java, .NET and other developers to create and update legacy assets via service creation, deliver and management.

This session describes which types of mainframe modernization projects that can put best put SOA to good use, and yield the quickest and most powerful ROI. Session also explores automated features of Seagulls LegaSuite technology.

This session breaks down the mainframe integration problems into its basic parts, to help CIOs build up a simplified, successful strategy. Featured are 5 steps to mainframe modernization success, with a priority on and reducing costs while delivering better results.